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Old 05-19-2010, 11:33 AM   #16
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Originally Posted by scottjl View Post
my only complaint is that there is going to have to be some better way for scrolling through a huge list, even left-to-right swipes to find one document out of the 20 or so I loaded into Numbers is a bit of a pain. so we still need some sort of folder metaphor.
Some smart list functionality would go a long way.

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Yeah, I hope that flounders.

The traditional folder and file management systems are 100% fine.
I used to think that way, but once you get comfortable with smartlist-type management (essentially just database queries wrapped in an easy-to-use interface), trying to manually manage a rat's nest of folders full of thousands of photos or mp3s or whatever starts to seem pretty clunky - after all, computers are supposed to free us from busy work, not create more of it.

It does require a fairly major shift in thinking, though. The old file/folder metaphor is hard to let go of completely.
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